Book Club December
Added 2022-12-01 19:57:59 +0000 UTCHey folks!
We are looking for our book club book for the month of December. Tom and I would love to read something about media, media literacy or media criticism. We were thinking of reading
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Postman.
https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X
If you like that choice hit like on this post.
If you want to suggest something else. suggest it in the comments or like a comment with your suggestion.
Comments
"Cult of the Amateur" by Andrew Keen was an interesting read but it may be wildly outdated now
B
2022-12-02 17:01:25 +0000 UTCThanks for mentioning this one, I hadn’t heard about it and it’s right up my alley. I just picked it up on audible
Mal Bishop
2022-12-02 09:51:26 +0000 UTCManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media It’s written by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
Mal Bishop
2022-12-02 09:46:30 +0000 UTCReally out of date. Author is stuffy and intellectually conservative. All examples are high culture of white male writers and thinkers. And it’s the only harsh critique of Sesame Street you’ll ever read! lol.
Dr. H
2022-12-02 02:57:09 +0000 UTCIt's twenty years old but absolutely brilliant, and it's amazing how many of the pundits involved are still relevant: What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News, by Eric Alterman.
Wes
2022-12-01 22:55:18 +0000 UTCThink Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy Harrison is another potential one. https://www.amazon.com/Think-Before-You-Like-Navigate/dp/1633883515/
Asymetra
2022-12-01 20:17:41 +0000 UTCThat sounds interesting! I'm about a quarter through the book "How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion," and I'd be interested to hear your take on it. While not directly media criticism, it does go into how people get indoctrinated into a particular set of beliefs (often through media) and what people can do to get them to reconsider their positions. It's very enlightening so far. Maybe not this cycle, since it doesn't really meet your topic, but I think it's a valuable read, and something I've spent a lot of time thinking about.
Jason Rucker
2022-12-01 20:07:31 +0000 UTCGood Thinking - David Robert Grimes
Ammon Turnblom
2022-12-01 20:02:09 +0000 UTC
